I want to quit my class.... 
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I want to quit my class....
I get the concepts. I get the accounting that I'm doing at work, however I'm really struggling with the work from this accounting class. I can hear it and see it, but I can't make it work on paper. I talked to my boss about it today and she said "not to stress or beat myself up about it and to take a break when it gets to be too much." I try to do a little bit at a time and not get all wound up about it but it makes no sense when I try to do it and I'm only in week 3!! I mean I can't even get the financial statements right and when I do and go back a few days later to do more on them I get them all wrong again! It doesn't help that the kids and I were sick most of last week and work has been super busy and this week is audit week so I'm doing that with our auditor on top of my other work. I just want to give up and that's so not like me. My boss says she can help me when things calm down, but I feel like I'm drowning now and I want out!! They paid for the class and I just don't know how to tell her that I want to withdraw now, not "wait and see" how my midterm goes. I think I've made a horrible mistake thinking I can handle this class on top of work and my family.
Bless your heart!!! Maybe you should give it just a little more time,and then if it's still not going right,get out.There's no shame in realizing that sometimes we have taken on too much.You can always try it again at a later date.Now...mama Wanda,alias Secret Santa, says...go soak in a HOT tub of bubble bath,plug in your smoke machine ( or whatever you call it ) and light your scented candle...and RELAX !!! I just had a feeling that you would be needing them ,TeeHee 
Catherin, you are just stretched too thin right now. It doesn't help that the kids and I were sick most of last week and work has been super busy and this week is audit week so I'm doing that with our auditor on top of my other work... Those situations are temporary, though it may not feel like it right now. Give yourself a little more time with it. I'm not trying to invalidate how you are feeling; Lord knows I know how hard it is to be a single working parent! But illness and audits are enough to make the best weeks bad, so give yourself a chance to succeed in this class. I think you are feeling afraid that you WON'T, all the pressures are making you doubt yourself, and sometimes that's pretty hard to get past. Give yourself a break, do something fun this weekend with your kids, try to relax, and see how it goes in the next few weeks.
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Don't quit!!!!! You can do this!! Does the school offer a free tutor lab or can you study with someone in your class? It's too important to quit. Take it from someone who has quit several times... Don't quit!!! You can do it!
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May I ask a few questions?
Is this an accounting 1 class? If you really haven't started out with basic accounting nothing will really mentally work.
Accounting is basically a step by step basis. If you don't start at the very beginning it is very difficult to jump in at any other level, even if you do understand general accounting concepts.
Most professors will take the time after class to go over anything you don't understand. However, if it is a professor who doesn't understand accounting (Had fill in professors before who didn't understand accounting) they won't be able to help you and most likely are reading in textbook style. Go to another student who does understand it and ask if they can help you.
Another word of wisdom, almost everything you learn in a course or college has a textbook answer to it. Everything in real life, well it's not textbook. Had to learn that the hard way, wish someone would have told me that years ago.
If it's a nice auditing firm, they will work with you. If worse comes to worse use the excuse that "you are new to this."
When I first went to work fresh out of college, my boss literally dumped me and a coworker off at a client's office to do an 8 week audit.
He started when I did and he always looked like he knew what he was doing.
I finally asked him, and he told me "If you don't know what you are doing always act like you know what you are doing. Never let it show to the client." I learned a lot of real world accounting from this man and not my boss.
Accounting can come easy to some and not so easy to others. Either way, the more you work at it, the easier it will come to you.
It also helps if you enjoy your work. If you enjoy your work, it will come much easier than if you hate working with numbers.
I've been in the accounting industry since 1986. I often wish I would have picked a different career. My excuse is numbers comes so easy to me, which is a blessing and a curse.
Take your time, think your way through it. Make it that it is mentally logical to you. If you don't get it, you most likely won't be able to get past a point.
There are other points of accounting from ledgers, adjustments and financial statements.
I always enjoyed personal tax returns; weekly, quarterly and yearly payroll tax returns; bank reconciliations, etc.
Some things are fun other things are repetitive.
You can do this.
Firsquestion is same as Marg, is this an Accounting 1 class? I have an asscoiates in accounting and so I had to take Accounting 1, 2, 3 and Auditing and if you don't start with the basics then you will never get it. But there were alot of people in my acc. 1&2 that was taking because it was required for a business management degree and some of them just did not get it. They could not believe that there was some people like me that was going on to do more of it. It drove me crazy because it is so hard to explain to someone who just doesn't understand it but for those of us that did it made classes seems like they lasted forever listening to the teacher try to explain it when we knew exactly what she was saying. Then there were a few thait just took a while to get it or you had to explain it a certain way. I don't mean that sound like I am bragging or putting anyone down. I read back over that and it kinda sounded that way to me. Sorry! All I meant was accounting is one of those things that you either get or you don't. Alot of people think you have to be a math genuis to do accounting but that is not so. You have calculators and computers for that part. If I can help at all email me at clmallonee at peoplepc dot com. Don't give up. You will feel so good when you finish. Good luck!!
I agree - what level is this course? I took Accounting 1, and did well. In Accounting 2, the instructor kept skipping around in the textbook, from chapter 1 to 19 to 6 to 18 to 12 (example, not actual), and after 3 classes I dropped the class because I found it too confusing to try to work in chapter 19 when I hadn't had the foundation of chapters 1-18. Accounting is indeed "logical", and you need to take it one step at a time. (I took Accounting II again, with a different instructor, and did well.)
It could be that you just don't have a great instructor. Maybe some on-line tutoring such as Latonya's generous offer - or even some in-person tutoring from someone in the class who clearly "gets it" might get you over the hump. I do understand the frustration of trying over and over to do something and just not being able to get it right, when you *know* you are not stupid and that usually you can and do learn new things without a whole lot of trouble.
A few more questions: I understand your employer is paying for the course. If you drop the course, do you have to reimburse your employer? If you are able to take it later, will your employer pay again?
Is your taking and passing this course a condition of you keeping your new job? (I remember that you got promoted recently, and have financial oversight responsibilities now.)
I suggest that this is simply not the time for you to be taking this class, on top of family and kids, and on top of new job responsibilities. I suggest also that your boss maybe didn't think it through before asking you to first take on a new job and new responsibilities and then to take this class, especially since you moved recently and now have a commute that adds significant time to your work day.
I think it is important most of the time to stick to something you've started, but sometimes it is time to quit. I know you to be a super-conscientious person, and I believe you are giving this class all you can give it.
And, bottom line (an accounting joke there), you are the only one who can decide whether the stress is too much, and whether the price you and your children will pay is worth not quitting the class.
Think about it over the weekend, and then talk to your boss, and see what the boss says about the possible future consequences at your job if you drop out of the class. But in the end, the decision has to be yours because you are the one who is living with the stress.
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No help, just letting you know I read your post and feel for you.
You guys are so sweet!!
You've all said the right things, and I talked to my boss about it and she's being really supportive. I'm making sense of the accounting that I'm doing at work and she's actually let me take some of our old records home so that I can compare it to my school work. I'm going to take a couple of my assignments to her tomorrow to see if I can get a few pointers. I know that my boss isn't going to boot me out of work if I don't complete the class. I know more than enough to handle my current financial responsibilities at work . She's been teaching me as I go along...she just wanted me to have this foundation and see how it goes.
It is an accounting one class and it has made me understand a few more of the accounting things in our office. I think I'm just overworked and over tired. I'm planning on sticking it out...maybe I just need to vent!? LOL The concensus is with my boss and me and my partner to stick it out until the mid term and see how it goes.
Latonya what a sweet offer!! Wanna do my homework for me :P I'm kidding. I know I can do this. I think part of it is how fast paced it is. I'm working hard though (ok I slacked a bit this week) but I am putting in effort and yet trying not to run myself into the ground.
I imagine this is such a scattered post, but I've been working on my accounting. Now it's time to plop my kids into bed
LOVE YOU GALS!!
Wanda you wonderful secret santa you! I can't tell you how much I've been enjoying my presents. In the tub and out of it! My kids are so jealous of the smoke machine they want one lol they think it's so cool. Ok snack time, they got their pj's on. *runs away from her monitor*
Well I withdrew from my class. It was wearing me out, I was struggling, my home life with my kids was suffering, and work on top of that. My boss pulled me in one day and asked what was going on because I looked exhausted so I told her and the decision was made. 3 weeks later she is still telling me how tired I look, but this week I've been relaxing at home a lot in the evenings and it's getting better. I feel less exhausted and I'm looking at work a lot more positively.
I'm going to be looking for a bookkeeping class to get me started on the basics and study the text I still have from my class etc. and eventually I'll probably enroll again. In the meantime I'm still doing a lot of the accounting at work and learning as I go and getting more all the time.
I'm still planning events and seminars, and enjoying it immensely. I'm currently in charge of one of our biggest events of the year. I do go to my boss for some guidance, but otherwise I'm doing it all! I talked to her about it today and she said "Isn't it exciting?" I said I find it so and if I pull it off without a hitch I'll be happy. I assisted her last year in doing this one and I think I really proved myself and showed her I could do it so this year she gave me the reins without outright saying that and is letting me run with it! It feels good that she has the confidence in me to handle it.
You go girl !!!!!!
Sounds like you had too much on your plate and really had to let something go. I'm glad you are happier!
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